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05 November 2010

In Knight anoles, you got to see part of the reason I made one of my goals for this blog to be inclusive of middle school students. They can be quite interesting to listen to about science, and can learn quite a lot of it themselves. Biased as I am in being a father and uncle, I still believe that kids other than mine can match, or at least approach :-) mine.

So I'll mention that if you're a teacher, parent, or a student yourself, and your kid/you write up a science essay, you're welcome to submit it here for consideration. I'll look for the essay to teach me something about the science, and to show the love of learning about your topic that Kristen showed for hers. As you might guess from my usual topics being climate and ice, but this note of Kristen's being lizards, you're not limited to my professional areas.

There will be details to work out, maybe later we'd want to establish it independently of this blog. But think of it as something in the vein of Journal of Young Scientists. A chance to share your love of your topic with others. You can send to me at bobg at radix dot net. We'll play things by ear. I've created the tag 'young scientists' and retro-applied it to Kristen's (first! :-) note.

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I'll be trying what seems to be an unusual approach in blogs -- writing to be inclusive of students in middle school and jr. high*, as well as teachers and parents (whether for their own information or to help their children). To that end, comments will have to pass a stricter standard than I'd apply for an all-comers site. It shouldn't be onerous, just keep to the topic and use clean language.

I expect it to be fun for all, however, as you really can get quite far in understanding the world, even climate, by understanding this sort of fundamental. If I get too much less fundamental, let me know where I went astray.

* Ok, I concede that not many middle school students will get everything. Even a fair number of adults will find some parts hard to follow. Still, some middle school kids will have fun. And almost everyone will follow a number of posts just fine.

Please see the comment policy for details. And the link policy for details about that. The latter is more open than you might expect.

About Me

In my day job I work on the oceanography, meteorology, climatology, glaciology end of my science interests, but I'm interested in everything, science or not. So I've also been on stage in a production of Comedy of Errors, run an ultramarathon, and been to Epidaurus, Greece, to see a production of Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians
Prior to starting the current job, I was a post-doc in oceanography in the UCAR ocean modelling program, and earned my doctorate from the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago (1989). My undergraduate degree involved Applied Math, Engineering, Astrophysics, and Glaciology.
Of course I don't speak for my employer, whoever that may be.